BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Mississippi’s fourth graders are leading the nation in academic growth according to the 2024 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). The latest NAEP shows Mississippi ranks #1 in the country for reading and math score improvements since 2013. The state now ranks 9th for fourth-grade reading and 16th in fourth-grade math — a major leap from 2013, when the state ranked near the bottom in both areas. Mississippi’s progress is also closing achievement gaps. The state’s African American and Hispanic fourth graders rank among the top...

California students continue to trail their peers across the country in two key subjects on the newly released national report card. Testing data released Wednesday reveals that overall, students across the country have not recouped pandemic learning loss in math and reading. California students’ recovery has been especially slow according to data from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress – also known as the Nation’s Report Card. California’s fourth graders scored an average of 233 on a 500-point scale in math and 212 in reading, compared nationally to 237...

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas’ fourth- and eighth-grade students’ overall reading and math scores dropped in 2024, though Texas children learning English and Black fourth-graders ranked near the top of the country in some of those areas, according to national test results released on Wednesday. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests a sample of fourth- and eighth-grade public school students every two years, measuring how children across different states...

In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see widespread recovery from the learning loss incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the results, from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, tell a grim tale, especially in reading: The slide in achievement has only continued. The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam’s three-decade history — 33%. The percentage of fourth graders at “below basic” was the largest in 20 years,...

THE PANDEMIC AND THE LOSSES THAT THAT BROUGHT. EVERY TWO YEARS, A RANDOM GROUP OF FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS TAKE THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. IT MEASURES READING AND MATH PROFICIENCY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. PARENTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED ABOUT THAT AND HOW THAT PERFORMANCE IS GOING. THE STATE AVERAGES HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IN FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE MATH, AND FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE READING, AND THE NUMBERS ARE GOING BACK UP AFTER THE EFFECTS COVID HAD ON LEARNING OVER...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana’s public education scores soared from pre-pandemic numbers, with fourth graders going from last in reading to 16th place in the nation. Today, Governor Jeff Landry along with local leaders highlighted the successes and areas of improvement based on the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, which is widely regarded as the gold standard of assessments for fourth and eighth graders. “This is an unbelievably great day for a lot of people, but especially for the kids of Louisiana,” Governor Landry said. Leaders say teaching styles like...

Student performance has long been a concern for state leaders, and recent data shows that won’t be changing anytime soon. Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test shows subtle changes in student performance from 2022 to 2024 in 4th and 8th grade math and reading. • 4th grade math went from 232.2 to 235.2, an increase of 3 points • 4th grade reading went from 211.8 to 209.1, a decrease of 2.7 points • 8th grade math went from 272.6 to 270.0, a decrease of 2.6 points...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Two years after Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) called Virginia’s results on a nationwide exam known as the Nation’s Report Card “dismal,” Virginia’s students are showing little signs of progress. “We have a long way to go,” Youngkin said on Wednesday. Newly released results from the 2024 exam found that Virginia’s 4th graders saw no improvement in their reading scores and only a four-point improvement (on a 500-point scale) compared to 2022. Meanwhile, 8th graders’ scores dropped four points on average in both subjects. However, despite that,...

Arizona, one of the first states in the country to send kids back to the classroom, saw a significant decline in reading skills in students. Arizona, one of the first states in the country to send kids back to the classroom, saw a significant decline in reading skills for fourth and eighth graders in 2024. Arizona students are also below the national average in fourth and eighth-grade math, and those scores declined from 2022 to 2024. The findings are yet another setback for U.S. schools and reflect the myriad challenges...

MARYLAND IS ONE OF THE FEW STATES SEEING IMPROVEMENTS IN FOURTH GRADE READING, BUT THE STATE SAW A DROP IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH PROFICIENCY. THE FINDINGS ARE PART OF THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS, ALSO KNOWN AS THE NATION’S REPORT CARD. OVERALL, THE NATION’S MATH AND READING PROFICIENCY IS BELOW PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS. ONE EDUCATION RESEARCHER CALLS THE FINDINGS A, QUOTE, FIVE ALARM FIRE. I’M NOT SURE THAT THESE TEST RESULTS ARE GOING TO RESONATE WITH INDIVIDUAL PARENTS IN A WAY THAT WILL CAUSE THEM TO ACT DIFFERENTLY WITH THEIR...